has a double-digit lead over rick santorum mitt romney spending his days in the chicago-area attending fund-raisers he'll have his election night party at the renaissance schaumburg hotel rick santorum is spending time in his home state of pennsylvania today he campaigned in illinois yesterday including a stop at ronald reagan's home town of dixon the other two gop presidential contenders newt gingrich and ron paul are not campaigning much in illinois newt gingrich is spending the day and louisiana which hold its primary on saturday and ron paul is in los angeles and will appear on the tonight show with jay leno the early balloting. indicated low voter interest in today's primary in illinois nancy loo has our report >>officials are saying that the turnout may be at or below 20% and in spite of the good weather there was just a trickle of voters at the polls ... they opened it 6:00 a.m. but expectations are low and early voting was down as well the republican turnout was up because of this presidential race ... there are over 160 candidates in hundreds of races ... and there is lots up